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About 6.7% of the world population live in the EU (yes this is horrible estimate of the proportion of people in the world who use google as many people don’t have access to the internet). So google would either have to use something to identify which people are in which realm, risking massive fines if they stuff up, then only apply the safeguards for the GDPR people.

This seems a rather complex thing to do when the cheaper solution would be to just not bother. I don’t trust google but I do expect companies to be lazy and avoid doing heaps of work for no financial benefit.

The benefit that google obtains from our data is in using it to train their ML tech. So after it has been milked for its statistical value as personised data it doesn’t have much worth.




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